The conflict between Hong Shuntang and Ruishengtang broke out quickly under Liu Xing's deliberate guidance, and soon turned into a large-scale fight.

The Ruishengtang side was outnumbered and had the upper hand at the beginning of the fight, while the Hongshuntang side tried its best to resist the opponent's attack, but the disadvantage in terms of numbers was difficult to reverse.

The fight lasted for nearly half an hour, and in the open space outside the hall, except for Huang Shengui and a few people, they were still besieged by the Ruisheng Hall congregation, and the rest of the congregation in Hong Shun Hall were either injured and fell to the ground, or were captured by the Ruisheng Hall people with their hands clasped.

Huang Shengui added a lot of scars, and the free hands of the Ruisheng Congregation continued to join the besieging team, seeing that Huang Shengui was about to be captured and humiliated by the Ruisheng Congregation, the white police in charge of law and order in San Francisco were late.

"Hall master, a group of foreign devils are here, do you want to withdraw brothers?"

Liu Xing personally commanded his subordinates to besiege Huang Shengui, and at this time, one of his subordinates rushed over and hurriedly said.

"Damn, the foreign devil won't come sooner or later, just wait until Lao Tzu is about to catch Huang Shengui!"

Liu Xing spat on the ground fiercely, unwilling to say, "Count him lucky this time, tell the brothers to retreat immediately!" ”

"Brothers, retreat!" With Liuxing's permission, the Ruisheng Congregation shouted loudly, gave up beating and besieging the remnants of the Hongshun Congregation, and quickly dispersed in all directions.

At the end of the fight, the white policemen grabbed more than a dozen slow-running Ruisheng Hall congregants, interrogated Huang Shengui and others, and then left the Chinatown Hall.

When the white policemen left, Huang Shengui called for more than a dozen well-connected Chinese to help take care of the injured congregation, and at the same time sent two Chinese to ask Lang Zhong.

"Zhou Beitang, how is the situation of the brothers?"

Commanding the last injured congregation to move the last injured congregation into the house, Huang Shengui didn't care about his injuries and said eagerly.

"The people of Ruishengtang have dealt a heavy hand this time, there are more than ten brothers who are seriously injured, and there are more than 20 who are slightly injured, except for the four brothers in the hall who escaped the catastrophe when they saw a bad opportunity, the others are all injured."

Zhou Beitang sighed and said.

Although overseas Chinese have conflicts over turf, they generally do not fight ruthlessly, and hundreds of people or thousands of people fight at a time, and in the end, the total number of minor and serious injuries may not exceed ten, and Ruishengtang's behavior this time is obviously a violation of the rules in the Chinese circle.

"Zhou Beitang, after settling the injured brothers, you can help me go to Canada and send two hundred people from the Tangkou headquarters with my letter."

"Hall Master, are you going to go to war with Ruisheng Hall?"

"Everyone else has bullied us, if we don't go to war, we can't be turtles with shrunken heads!"

"Yes, the villain understands." ……

After López Jr. was officially crowned King of Paraguay. The atmosphere in Asunción, the capital of Paraguay, gradually returned to calm, and the Paraguayan presidential palace, now the temporary palace of the king of Paraguay, Li Mingyuan, Peruvian President Pedro, Bolivian President Adolfo, and others who attended the coronation ceremony of López Jr. sat in a secret room, waiting for the arrival of the main lord López Jr.

"The kingdom has been restructured, and the affairs are busy, so you have been waiting for a long time."

Little López, dressed in full costume, walked into the room with a smile, looking very good.

"Your Highness is polite, I have just arrived."

Li Mingyuan said politely, and then asked, "Your Highness invited me and others to get together, I don't know why?" ”

"I think Emperor Pedro II of Brazil is already aware of the recruitment of new soldiers, the purchase of warships, and the deployment of additional troops to the border areas."

Little López observed the expressions of Li Mingyuan and the three of them as he spoke, and when he saw the three nodding in acknowledgement, he continued, "Brazil is rearmament, and the final target is definitely the four countries that have territorial disputes with Brazil, so I think that instead of passively responding to the military threat of the Brazilian Empire, it is better for the four countries to form a closer alliance, set up a common alliance headquarters, and unify and coordinate the affairs of the four countries to deal with the Brazilian threat, what do you think?" ”

"I agree with His Majesty López's suggestion that although Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Rio Gran do Sul are connected by land to each other, they are inaccessible, and only by establishing a closer alliance can the military defense relations of the countries be more effectively coordinated."

Li Mingyuan sensed the original intention of López Jr. in advance, and was the first to express his support at the moment.

"The Brazilian Empire is aggressive, and large swaths of Peru have fallen into the hands of the Brazilian Empire, and I agree that the four countries will form a closer alliance to recover the lands that have been usurped by Brazil."

Acre is a prominent area in central Peru, because Acre is controlled in the hands of the Brazilian Empire, the strategic depth of central Peru is compressed, the territory is wide on both sides and narrow in the middle, the strategic situation is bad, once the Brazilian Empire attacks Peru from Acre, Peru is likely to face the dilemma of being cut off from the territory, so Pedro has always hoped to completely recover the Acre region and eliminate Peru's strategic disadvantage.

Li Mingyuan, Pedro, on behalf of Rio Gran do Sul and Peru, have successively expressed their support for Pedro's proposal, and Adolfo, the weakest military side, has also chosen to support the establishment of a closer alliance.

The representatives of the three countries unanimously agreed with López Jr.'s proposal, and at the same time, as the initiator of the proposal, López Jr. was successfully elected as the head of the alliance.

After the alliance was established, the first thing was to establish a cooperative relationship between the four countries, so López Jr. first proposed to establish formal diplomatic relations between the four countries, establish embassies of the other three countries in each country, and raise the diplomatic relations between the four countries to the highest level of ambassadors.

Before the establishment of the alliance, the four countries had already set up offices with each other, and López Jr.'s proposal was equivalent to formalizing the offices as a fixed base for information and intelligence exchange among the four countries, which would be of great benefit to each country to obtain information from the outside world, so it was also agreed to pass.

After the first article of the alliance was passed, López Jr. immediately put forward a second proposal: to adjust the number of armies of each country, and to deploy the armies of the four countries to disperse the military pressure of the Brazilian Empire.

"On August 25, after receiving loans from the United States and France, Pedro rapidly expanded the size of the Brazilian army, according to intelligence, the regular army of the Brazilian Empire now numbered 120,000, and the number of volunteers composed of blacks was 50,000, and the size of the Brazilian regular army was still expanding, and finally it was likely to reach 150,000, and when the expansion was over, the Brazilian Empire would have a standing army of more than 20 people, five times the number before the Paraguayan War, and once the war broke out again, Brazil will be able to recruit more young men into its army, and the pressure on the Quad alliance will be far greater than in previous wars. ”

López Jr. introduced the military threat from the Brazilian side, and continued: "According to the military pressure of the border between the four countries and Brazil, I have established the Rio Gran do Sul side to deploy no less than 30,000 troops on the front line in Santa Catarina, the Peruvian side to deploy about 25,000 troops in Acre, Bolivia to deploy 20,000 troops on the border with Brazil, and Paraguay will bear the military pressure of the main Brazilian force, and deploy 20,000 troops each in the north near Magrosso do Sul and in the east near Paraná to defend against the Brazilian army." If war breaks out between one of the four nations and Brazil, the other three should immediately put pressure on Brazil from the other directions, forcing the Brazilian Empire to disperse its forces and creating the conditions for the alliance's eventual victory in the war against Brazil. ”

"Your Highness López, the number of Bolivia's regular army is only 40,000, and 40,000 troops need to maintain internal order and defend against the military threats of Chile and Brazil, if half of the army is used to defend Brazil, and the remaining 20,000 troops cannot complete the threat of Bolivia in other aspects, Bolivia will maintain a maximum of 10,000 troops in the region close to Brazil, and if the number is large, it will be difficult for the government to support its finances."

"Rio Grande do Sul has a population of less than 400,000, and we are also unable to maintain a force of 30,000 men in the border areas."

López Jr.'s proposal was vetoed by Adolfo and Li Mingyuan one after another, and disappointed, López Jr. set his sights on Peruvian President Pedro.

"Peru is divided by warlords, and the government army needs to be stationed in the country to maintain deterrence against the warlords. No more than 25,000 troops have been deployed to the border areas. ”

The stationing of a large number of troops in the border areas in peacetime is not only easy to arouse the vigilance of the Brazilian side, but also drags down the domestic economy and causes huge pressure on the government's finances, no one including Pedro, Adolfo, including Li Mingyuan, is willing to share the military pressure from the Brazilian Empire for Paraguay at the cost of damaging their own national interests, and López Jr., as the head of the newly established alliance, does not want to split within the alliance, so he takes a step back and says, "Not long after the end of the last war, the countries are facing a certain degree of economic difficulties at home, I can understand your difficulties, but coordinating the defense of the expansion of the Brazilian Empire is a matter of national security, and we cannot sit idly by and watch the defense of the border areas because of the temporary economic difficulties, which will only create opportunities for the Brazilian army to invade our territory. ”